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PARASOL FOR GHILDREN S GARRIAGES. No. 315,605. Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

WITNESSES INVBNTOR Z ATTORNEY N. PETERS. Phclc-lxfitogrlphcr. Washington. v.0.

UNITED, STATES PATENT Enron GEORGE A. ELLIs, OF GARDNER, MAssAonnsErTs, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY HEYwoon, eEOEeE HEYWOOD, ALVIN M. GREENWOOD, Ann AMos MORE-ILL, ALL OF SAME PLACE.

PARASOL FOR CHILDRENS CARREAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,605,5'iated April 1a, 1885.

Application filed June 30, 1884. (No model.)

To all 1072,0122, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. ELLIs, of Gardner, W'orcester county, State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Standards and Parasols for Childrens Carriages; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying sheet IO of drawings, forming part of this specification.

' This invention consists in a parasol and standard constructed and combined in the manner hereinafter particularly shown, de- I 5 scribed, and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my parasol and standard; Fi g. 2, also a side view, partly in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in both the figures.

In parasols as they are ordinarily constructed it has been found necessary to employ a spring-catch to keep the runner in place when 2 the parasol is open and its springs are extend ed, and also to employ a stop to limit the upward sliding of the runner; and when the parasol is intended to be used in connection with a standard, for the purpose of supporting it 0 on acarriage, special mechanism more or less complicated is necessarily employed to attach the parasol to the standard. Now, to simplify the construction and operation of the parasol and its attachment to the standard, and at the same time to lessen the cost of making the same, I construct what is technically known as the top notch, A, with a tubular stem, at, flared at its lower end, as at b. The runner B is of the ordinary well-known construction, with a 0 flange, c, at its lower end. In other respects the parasol O is the same as the well-known parasol. The standard for this parasol is made in two parts, 01 and e. The part (I is the longer of the two parts, and is that portion which is 5 fixed to the body of the carriage, and which elevates the parasol above it. The shorter portion 6 of the standard is pivoted to the upper end of the portion (Z by a rule-joint, so that the portion 6 may be in prolongation of the part d, or be turned at a right angle to the same, or at an angle which is greater or less than a right angle. The upper end of the part e of this standard has out upon it a. screwthread, f. The diameter of the threaded part being somewhat less than the diameter of the part c of the standard, a shoulder, g, is formed. Now, to fit the parasol to the standard the part c of the standard is bent so as to be in continuation or prolongation of the part 6?. The part c is next inserted through the runner B and through the tubular top notch, A, until asmall inner flange, 71, of the top notch restsnpon the shoulder y, when a nut or ornamental head, D, is screwed upon the threaded end f, and this clamps the top notch be- 6 tween this ornamental head and the shoulder g, and so fixes the parasol to the standard. The parasol and standard being new secured to each other by this simple Operation, the parasol is opened by sliding upward the run 0 ner 13 until it strikes the flanged end of the tubular stein a, which acts as a stop to limit the upward movement of the runner, and, by turning the part c of the standard at right angles to the part d, the runner is prevented 7 from again descending, for in this position of the part c the lower end of the runner comes in contact with the upper surface of the part d of the standard, which acts as a stop.

\Vhen the parasol is expanded and fixed in So its expanded position in the manner above described, to prevent it from being disturbed from that position the flange c of the runner B is permitted to enter into a notch, it, formed in the end of the part (2 of the standard, in which notch the runner is kept by the elasticity of the springs of the parasol, so that neither wind nor any ordinary jarring will disturb the part c from its vertical right-angular position by causing it to bend outward c in one direction; and the construction of the rule-joint prevents it from bending backward in the other direction.

To close the parasol, as is obvious, it is only necessary to raise the runner free from the 5 notch It, turn down the part 6 until it is again a prolongation of the part d, when the runner at once slides down past the rule-joint and onto the upper part of the portion at of the standard,which permits the closing or 001-- lapsing of the parasol in the usual manner.

The closed position of the parasol is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, its expanded position in elevation in Fig. 1, and its expanded position in section in Fig. 2.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A parasol with its top notch, A, provided with a tubular stem, at, projecting downwardly intothe parasol, and an inner flange, h, at the top thereof, substantially as and for the purpose described. 7

2. A parasol with the following elements in combination: a tubular top notch, A, with ina flange, c, on the lower end of the same, a

tubular top notch, A, with a flange, b, at its lower end, and an inner flange, h, a screwthread, f, and shoulder g, and a nut or ornamental top, D, as and for the purpose described.

GEO. A. ELLIS.

In presence of A. M. GRAOEY, T. B. DUNN. 

